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nick knight
nick knight
United Kingdom

So in the space of a week I have seen Chan Marshall,Antony Hegarty and met Liz Fraser and now have an odd feeling of spinning that is partly due to seeing some of my all time favorites in music and partly due to Turning, Antonys' beautiful show that was presented last night at the Barbican.Working with Charles Atlas he has created a truely moving piece that works with beauty on many different levels.Pure pleasure for me.
I would love to hear what anyone else who has seen the show thought.

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Ben Morris
United Kingdom

Weird, I just posted the exact same thing in another forum here...

Yes, I thought it was very good. I'd be interested to know more about the females focused on each song, was there any relevance to their video portraits and the themes of each song?

I think Antony Hegarty is a rare talent, as I've said before. Of all the gigs and shows I've been to, I really have never been to anything quite like the one on Saturday. What were your thoughts on it?

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nick knight
nick knight
United Kingdom

Ben,
the women who 'turned' for Antony were friends of his from New York. I thought they were great ,and I got all inspired to badger Vogue into letting me do a story with more curvaceous women again,after seeing the model in the sheer lace dress,who sat at Antonys' feet at the end.
Anyway Antonys' voice was awesome and I thought he made a rather beautiful vision standing glowing in the ultra violet light.
In all I very much appreciated the show combining the visuals ,the music and the live preformance,which as you may suspect from SHOWstudio is where my interests lie.All they needed was to allow an interenet audiance to download live clips onto their mobile phones and interact to modify the visuals ,but that's a different story.
It is a shame I didn't know you were there I'd have liked to say Hello.I keep thinking about how to have a SHOWstudio event that physically brings the forum contribitors together,any thoughts?

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Ben Morris
United Kingdom
In reply to nick knight:

It's interesting actually now you say that (about the girls), yes I too liked the girl in the lace, I thought all the girls had something interesting going on (in a visual sense) but I thought perhaps they had been cast for the role, so to speak. I'm actually very glad they weren't if you know what I mean.

I've seen quite a few Antony performances, this one was certainly my favourite I would say. It took me a while to get my head around Antony's performance in the centre, the girls being filmed to the left, the large visuals and from where I was I could see Charles editing it all together live - There was so much going on. I love watching Antony sing though, I took my mum and she creid which was pretty special.

I think sometimes it's nice to have occassions where a performance is for the audience only, I know you will disagree (!) but one of the fantastic things about that particular performance was the fact the connection and emotion with the audience, which I think would be completely lost if not seeing it there, and then.

And yes, I think that could be a very interesting idea - I've got some thoughts - send me an e-mail if you want to chat further about it, I volunteer the studio as a space if that helps perhaps.

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joanne K
joanne K
United Kingdom
In reply to Ben Morris:

Oh my, if that actually happened we'd get to see who some regular forum users REALLY are..(valentine?). It would be interesting to see if they are at all similar to their online presence or not. Either that, or the status quo would remain the same as online between some 'forum-foes' which perhaps could easily be rectified by mud-wrestling which in turn would be broadcast online. Nick- you'd have to be the referee. Perhaps it could be forum-foe against forum-foe or clothing label against clothing label. My money would be on whoever would be in McQueen- I bet that'd be a dirty fight.

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Saint Sèvres
Saint Sèvres
New Zealand
In reply to joanne K:

I'm envious; that would be an interesting event (to be physically present at!). Perhaps a Bal Masqué for viewers? That looked amazing; I was quite stressed at the time of the event and got a lot of therapy by way of laughter and entertainment by clicking on the confession recordings. Nick, how might you include the offshore contingent? An obvious question yes but I'll have a think anyway . . .

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In reply to Saint Sèvres:

salut jake!

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Saint Sèvres
Saint Sèvres
New Zealand
In reply to f:lux:

hullo f:lux!
so, would you attend such an event? Wouldn't be able to cover your face like that now . . . how are you?

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In reply to Saint Sèvres:

If it were a bal masqué my face would have to be covered, no? I think my arms might get a bit tired though... ;)

And I'm fine thanks, busy prepping work for sale in a couple of galleries. You?

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Saint Sèvres
Saint Sèvres
New Zealand
In reply to f:lux:

Razor-sharp as usual. Well, I guess I meant that in the literal sense yes; however, I did say 'perhaps.' Oooh that's great. Hope you sell some stuff. What's the work like? Mm, I've pretty much wound down for the year (school's almost over). I'm getting into this creative monk rationale though. All that needs changing is scale and income and I'm done - just like bloody Amazon. Obscure perhaps but it all makes perfect sense to me. How have your other forum buddies been?

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